Feed a crowd?

ajirvin0583

Everytime I start eating healthy, I usually stop because it is cheaper to eat what my family eats. Well, I'd like to get some of your recipes for healthy dishes that feed a crowd. That way, my family can eat and we can have leftovers! Please, I'd love your recipes.
No Cheese
No tomato/tomato sauce

L1zardQueen

I eat what my family eats but now I eat less.

Heather4448

Soup. Pasta salads. Tacos (Omg, I love tacos.) You can make low cal substitutions for yourself by using lettuce wraps instead of shells and Greek yogurt instead of sour cream.

cmriverside

That's an awfully open question.

Can't you just add a large salad or side of vegetables for yourself instead of whatever thing it is of which you don't want to eat too much?

Instead of pasta, bread etc, have a plate of raw vegetables. Takes three extra minutes.

MelanieCN77

Lentil soup. Taco bar.

Derf_Smeggle

Root Vegetable Bake
2 - sweet potatoes (skin on)
2 - russet potatoes (skin on)
2-3 beets (peel)
2-3 turnips (peel if waxed)
5 - carrots
1 - onion
2 tbsp - butter
1-2tbsp - refined coconut oil (or substitute)
2tbsp - Thyme
salt
pepper

Cube cut all vegetables and place in large glass cookware, or 2 medium glass cookware. Preheat oven to 350°. Melt butter and oil in small bowl/dish. Mix spices into the melted butter/oil. Drizzle over vegetables. Cover with aluminum foil. Bake in oven 30-40 minutes until turnips and carrots are tender, but crisp.

Serve with protein. Pot roast and rotisserie chicken are a couple of my choices.

Averages out around 214 calories/300 grams

Derf_Smeggle

Brussels Sprouts with Sesame Seeds
658.00 g, Brussel Sprouts (Usda Website)
1 tbsp, Oil - Vegetable, coconut
1 tbsp, Butter - Salted
0.50 tsp, Salt, table
1.50 tbsp, Seeds, sesame seeds, whole, dried

Cut stems and halve the individual sprouts. Melt butter and coconut oil in a large skillet and allow skillet to preheat at a medium-high burner setting. Add sesame seeds, and salt to butter and oil. Add the Brussels Sprouts on top.

Stir occasionally and flip the sprouts over. Turn the heat down to low-medium as the first flat halved sides of sprouts turn light golden brown. Cook on low, stirring occasionally until sprouts are tender, yet crisp. Test with a fork.

97 calories per 100g

jgnatca

Your restrictions remind me when I had to adjust meal planning to accommodate my son's migraines (tomatoes, old cheese and MSG can all be triggers).

Slow cooker white chili. Just skip the cheese and add a little more half and half (or even more reduced fat, add powdered milk)

http://www.thechunkychef.com/slow-cooker-creamy-white-chicken-chili/#wprm-recipe-container-8881

jgnatca

Slow cooker stew.

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/14685/slow-cooker-beef-stew-i/

jgnatca

Lentil casserole. I'm not sure how kid friendly it is but I like it.

http://www.bbcgoodfoodme.com/recipes/17429-spicy-root-lentil-casserole

jgnatca

This is family tested and is as easy as it is delicious. It is easily doubled as everything is baked in your oven.

http://pin.it/sPN17ri

Even the home made teriyaki sauce was so worth it.

You could even bake the rice at the same time.

http://pin.it/k8zwYQd

Sp1tfire

Sandwiches! White Chili!

jgnatca

Meatballs baked in the oven. I have Bulk prepared from a whole pack of family size lean hamburger. If I get tired of rolling balls I stuff in trays for freezable meat loaf.

You may make with this sauce or serve with different sauces different nights.

Hubby always snags a few before dinner.

https://cookbookhoarder.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/swedish-meatballs.pdf

kommodevaran

No recipes. You can google recipes. How to eat cheap and healthy - and tasty: Buy food from every food group, and mix and match. Have something from several food groups for each meal, and something from every food group every day. There are several ways to split food into groups. I like this one:
1) Fruit, including berries - fresh and frozen.
2) Vegetables - fresh, canned and frozen.
3) Grains and starchy vegeables.
4) Protein foods - meat, fish, eggs, seafood, pulses.
5) Dairy.
6) Nuts and seeds.
7) Fats and oils.

If you cook from scratch, then the majority of your groceries will belong to one and just one of these groups.

To assemble meals, use common sense. You could for instance have one or two slices of bread, and something on them, or a bowl of oatmeal, or yogurt, or eggs, with an addon, for breakfast and lunch. Dinner can be a plate split into three parts for protein, starch and veg. Have 1-3 pieces of fruit similar in size to a medium apple, and at least 3 portions of vegetables similar in size to a medium carrot, every day.

Don't have the same things for each meal and from day to day at the same time - change it up. Plan so you eat up everything and don't buy more than you can eat before it spoils.

Look at the price per pound and what you get for your money. Choose low end items from each food group most of the time, and splurge occasionally.

Don't get carried away by health claims. Simple, cheap, ordinary, old-fashioned is usually just as, if not more, tasty and versatile as fancy, expensive, brand name, low/enriched this and that. "Healthy foods" don't even exist. A diet can be more or less healthy, and your diet is made up of what eat over time. Expect some trial and error. And keep in mind that good nutrition can be achieved by a surprisingly low degree of precision.